scholarly journals Carer and service providers’ experiences of individual funding models for children with a disability in rural and remote areas

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dew ◽  
Kim Bulkeley ◽  
Craig Veitch ◽  
Anita Bundy ◽  
Michelle Lincoln ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Individual Funding

scholarly journals Understanding Broadband Infrastructure Development in Remote and Rural Communities – a Staged and Reflexive Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingjerd Skogseid ◽  
Ivar Petter Grøtte ◽  
Geir Liavåg Strand
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Staged Model

Access to broadband telecommunication infrastructure is important for both urban and rural areas. In urban areas market forces ensures access to service providers. In many rural and remote areas this is not the case. Local actors need to initiate the development of the infrastructure. This paper contributes to the development of a staged model for infrastructure development. We explore how local stakeholders have initiated and sustained the development of broadband access in rural and remote areas of Norway. Our conclusion is that the model is relevant in a Norwegian context. However we see the need to extend and strengthen it with elements of local reflexive processes taking context, feedback, learning, and global change forces into account. In initiating a timely development to meet local needs it is important to have a staged reflexive approach.  Such a model provides a path of development that allows local and regional initiatives to aggregate and grow.

scholarly journals Local administrative capacity based on the presence of expert staff in municipal city halls and inter-municipal cooperation entities

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Bulk ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Set Up

Local government in Iceland has been through extensive functional reforms in the past three decades. Territorial reforms have been less successful even though the central government has openly aimed to enhance the capacity of the local governments. This study aims to estimate the administrative capacity of Icelandic local governments by estimating the level of expertise in the tasks of planning, education and social service. The findings show that there is a considerable difference with respect to size, as municipalities with more than 3,000 citizens have much higher levels of expertise in comparison to smaller municipalities. The municipalities are only partially able to turn to inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) for compensation because the municipalities in more densely populated areas are more likely to set up IMC entities than those in more sparsely populated areas. The municipalities in less populated areas are also more likely to buy their services from private service providers. Moreover, the smallest municipalities have transferred a large bulk of their functions to other municipalities through contracting. The findings suggest that IMCs may not be the best answer for small municipalities, especially those in rural and remote areas.

scholarly journals Co-destruction in social care services: how to identify and evaluate barriers arising from a co- production exercise with family carers living in rural and remote areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Gheduzzi ◽  
Cristina Masella ◽  
Niccolò Morelli ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Social Care Service ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas

Abstract Background: Co-production has been widely recognised as a plausible means to reduce the dissatisfaction of citizens, the inefficacy of service providers, and conflicts in relations between the former and the latter. However, the enhancement of co-production has begun to be questioned: co-production has often been taken for granted, and its effects may not always be fruitful. To understand and prevent unsuccessful citizen and provider collaboration, the recent literature has begun to focus on the causes of co-destruction. This paper investigates how the barriers that may arise during the co-production of a new social service with family carers can be identified and interpreted.Methods: To investigate this topic, we undertook a single case study by considering a longitudinal project (Place4Carers) intended to co-produce a new social care service with and for the family carers of elderly patients living in rural and remote areas. We organised collaborative co-assessment workshops and semi-structured interviews to collect the views of family carers and service providers on the co-production process. As part of the research team that participated in the co-production process, we contributed to the analysis with a reflexive approach.Results: The analysis revealed four main co-production barriers: lack of trust, lack of effectiveness of engagement, participants’ inability (or impossibility) to change and the lack of a cohesive partnership among partners. Despite these findings, the project increases carers’ satisfaction, competence and trust in service providers by demonstrating the positive effects of co-production.Conclusions: Our article confirms that co-creation and co-destruction processes may coexist. The role of researchers and service providers is to prevent or remedy co-destruction effects. To this end, we suggest that in co-production projects, more time should be spent co-assessing the project before, during and after the co-production process. This approach would facilitate the adoption of adjustment actions such as creating mutual trust through conviviality among actors and fostering collaborative research between academia and organisations that are not used to working together.

scholarly journals A Possible Smart Metering System Evolution for Rural and Remote Areas Employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Internet of Things in Smart Grids

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1627
Author(s):  
Giovanni Battista Gaggero ◽  
Mario Marchese ◽  
Aya Moheddine ◽  
Fabio Patrone
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Electrical Grid ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas

The way of generating and distributing energy throughout the electrical grid to all users is evolving. The concept of Smart Grid (SG) took place to enhance the management of the electrical grid infrastructure and its functionalities from the traditional system to an improved one. To measure the energy consumption of the users is one of these functionalities that, in some countries, has already evolved from a periodical manual consumption reading to a more frequent and automatic one, leading to the concept of Smart Metering (SM). Technology improvement could be applied to the SM systems to allow, on one hand, a more efficient way to collect the energy consumption data of each user, and, on the other hand, a better distribution of the available energy through the infrastructure. Widespread communication solutions based on existing telecommunication infrastructures instead of using ad-hoc ones can be exploited for this purpose. In this paper, we recall the basic elements and the evolution of the SM network architecture focusing on how it could further improve in the near future. We report the main technologies and protocols which can be exploited for the data exchange throughout the infrastructure and the pros and cons of each solution. Finally, we propose an innovative solution as a possible evolution of the SM system. This solution is based on a set of Internet of Things (IoT) communication technologies called Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) which could be employed to improve the performance of the currently used technologies and provide additional functionalities. We also propose the employment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to periodically collect energy consumption data, with evident advantages especially if employed in rural and remote areas. We show some preliminary performance results which allow assessing the feasibility of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Implementing transnational telemedicine solutions: A connected health project in rural and remote areas of six Northern Periphery countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Casey ◽  
Patrick S. Hayes ◽  
David Heaney ◽  
Lee Dowie ◽  
Gearoid ÓLaighin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Connected Health ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Health Project
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